"I have always had a particular antagonism for the military."

-- Donna Leon

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“Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it.”
“Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation of contemporary thought. It is possible to invent a technique or a manner independently, but one cannot invent the whole complexity of a state of mind.”

Source : "'Chez les cubistes' (in 'Bulletin de la Vie Artistique')". "Juan Gris: His Life and Work". Book by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1946.
“Words alone can rarely justify censorship. If we censor words themselves without looking at the context, we could shut down much of the entertainment industry.”
“I anticipated all the changes in jazz because they were all problematical things, that I was dealing with myself. In New York in the late '50s, there were a lot of experiments being made on how to avoid playing popular standards and how to get improvising out of those constricting formats.”
“Don't let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.”
“I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.”
“This life as a simple citizen and laborer has its benefits not only for the person himself but perhaps also for his country. After all, there is room for only one Prime Minister, but for those who make the desert bloom there is room for hundreds, thousands and even millions. And the destiny of the state is in the hands of the many rather than of a single individual. There are times when an individual feels he should do those things which only can and should be done by the many.”
“Teaching is a personal matter of the nursery of the mind and should not be on public display.”

Source : "Teaching As A Private Process". Educational Broadcasting Review, Volume 2, p. 32, 1968.

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